An environmental analysis of public UAP sightings and sky view potential: Published: 14 December 2023

Found this pretty interesting

This article was written by R. M. Medina, S. C. Brewer & S. M. Kirkpatrick.

Here is the quick summary:

“Here, we ask three foundational research questions: (1) What is the viability of publicly offered data on UAP sighting reports? (2) Are there credible spatial patterns to these reports? and (3) If so, can these patterns be explained by physical and/or built environment factors? To answer these questions, we use UFO sighting report data from the National UFO Research Center 7.

We model the total count of these reports over a 20-year period from 2001 to 2020, using environmental explanatory variables—light pollution, cloud cover, tree canopy cover, airports, and military installations.

This model is intended to represent both the available view of the sky as well as the potential for airborne objects. We hypothesize that (a) factors limiting visibility will be negatively correlated with sighting reports, and (b) factors related to air traffic will be positively correlated, or simply that people will report sightings of UAPs where they have the most opportunity to see them. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to understand how spatial variation in reports is linked to environmental variables.

This analysis represents one of few attempts to examine this phenomenon at the national level and offers a starting point for a similar approach to be applied to U.S. Government data on UAP activity to help identify possible sources.”

Has some cool images/graphs as well.